Emeline Brule
@emeline.bsky.social
Round glasses and crazy hair, spends too much time in a workshop Human-Computer Interaction Researcher, Wikipedian, designer, mother
This resonated a lot for me - I grew up at a time we were building the EU, opening borders, thought the internet would give us access to unprecedented knowledge… Like, I remember how impressive and hopeful the EU parliament and flag felt. I don’t know how we can pass that on, right now.
I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.
This Is What It Looks Like When Nothing Matters
Welcome to the internet’s nihilism crisis.
www.theatlantic.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:04 PM
This resonated a lot for me - I grew up at a time we were building the EU, opening borders, thought the internet would give us access to unprecedented knowledge… Like, I remember how impressive and hopeful the EU parliament and flag felt. I don’t know how we can pass that on, right now.
Or like my 3yo today, “how do we know that something exists?”
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Or like my 3yo today, “how do we know that something exists?”
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De la défiance envers la science au refus de se soigner, la désinformation en santé a des conséquences très concrètes. Comment la combattre ? Un rapport récent propose 9 recommandations et plaide pour la valorisation de l’information de qualité plutôt que la seule lutte contre les fausses nouvelles.
Pour lutter contre la désinformation en santé, valoriser la bonne information plutôt que chasser les mauvaises
De la défiance envers la science au refus de se soigner, la désinformation en santé a des conséquences très concrètes. Comment la combattre ? Un rapport récent propose 9 recommandations et plaide pour...
www.radiofrance.fr
January 26, 2026 at 1:48 PM
De la défiance envers la science au refus de se soigner, la désinformation en santé a des conséquences très concrètes. Comment la combattre ? Un rapport récent propose 9 recommandations et plaide pour la valorisation de l’information de qualité plutôt que la seule lutte contre les fausses nouvelles.
It's a busy wiki day today - I wish people were sharing @theverge.com's article about the Enterprise API instead of the AP/TechCrunch coverage! www.theverge.com/news/862109/...
Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
Another source of revenue for the Wikimedia Foundation.
www.theverge.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:59 PM
It's a busy wiki day today - I wish people were sharing @theverge.com's article about the Enterprise API instead of the AP/TechCrunch coverage! www.theverge.com/news/862109/...
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Today, @wikipedia.org turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future. There's no better example of the web we make together. www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...
Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Today, @wikipedia.org turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future. There's no better example of the web we make together. www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
Wikipedia unveils new AI licensing deals as it marks 25th birthday
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
bit.ly
January 15, 2026 at 7:08 PM
This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Celebrating Wikipedia turning 25 with the kiddos today! Next year will be my ten year anniversary as a Wikipedian, and I am so incredibly grateful for that community as a person and as a parent. Here's to the next quarter century! 🎉
January 15, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Celebrating Wikipedia turning 25 with the kiddos today! Next year will be my ten year anniversary as a Wikipedian, and I am so incredibly grateful for that community as a person and as a parent. Here's to the next quarter century! 🎉
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Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
Hoping that @molly.wiki can help explain.
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others
January 15, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
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People who produce AI slop papers love to skip the boring research and get right to the dramatic discovery. The LLMs tell them their idea is awesome and original, and write it up as a "proposed framework" (with no data or evidence). That term increased 70% in Web of Science abstracts last year.
January 11, 2026 at 9:53 PM
People who produce AI slop papers love to skip the boring research and get right to the dramatic discovery. The LLMs tell them their idea is awesome and original, and write it up as a "proposed framework" (with no data or evidence). That term increased 70% in Web of Science abstracts last year.
Not me reading scholarship about the development of drawing in young children because my 3 years old draws elaborate dinosaurs and landscapes but STILL NO TADPOLES. I should know better, but it still bothers my childhood-researcher-self that he's just skipping a pretty universal step 🙈
December 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Not me reading scholarship about the development of drawing in young children because my 3 years old draws elaborate dinosaurs and landscapes but STILL NO TADPOLES. I should know better, but it still bothers my childhood-researcher-self that he's just skipping a pretty universal step 🙈
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The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
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this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.
Context Widows
or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement
artificialbureaucracy.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.
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Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. [kottke.org]
The Space Exploration Logo Archive
Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. There is also a book, but it looks like it was only
kottke.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. [kottke.org]
"'baby-friendly hospitals' [promote] breastfeeding as best practice, [so] the new boxes include nursing supplies but no formula, bottles or pacifiers" really means "these hospitals would rather babies go hungry than providing accurate info about formula"
In 2025!!!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
In 2025!!!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Finnish-Style Baby Boxes Get a New York Twist
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani campaigned to offer citywide baby boxes, a free care package program for expectant NYC mothers. Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams already paved the way.
www.bloomberg.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"'baby-friendly hospitals' [promote] breastfeeding as best practice, [so] the new boxes include nursing supplies but no formula, bottles or pacifiers" really means "these hospitals would rather babies go hungry than providing accurate info about formula"
In 2025!!!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
In 2025!!!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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60% of those who speak French daily now live in Africa, and 80% of children studying in French are in Africa. There are as many French speakers in Kinshasa as in Paris.
“French flourishes every day in Africa,” said Souleymane Bachir Diagne, professor of philosophy & French at Columbia U.
Gift link
“French flourishes every day in Africa,” said Souleymane Bachir Diagne, professor of philosophy & French at Columbia U.
Gift link
How Africans Are Changing French — One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time
More than 60 percent of French speakers now live in Africa. Despite growing resentment at France, Africans are contributing to the evolution and spread of the French language.
www.nytimes.com
August 19, 2024 at 3:42 AM
60% of those who speak French daily now live in Africa, and 80% of children studying in French are in Africa. There are as many French speakers in Kinshasa as in Paris.
“French flourishes every day in Africa,” said Souleymane Bachir Diagne, professor of philosophy & French at Columbia U.
Gift link
“French flourishes every day in Africa,” said Souleymane Bachir Diagne, professor of philosophy & French at Columbia U.
Gift link
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Really positive sign that open source projects are standing up to do the right thing. Kudos to the Python folks: www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...
Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings
: Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped
www.theregister.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Really positive sign that open source projects are standing up to do the right thing. Kudos to the Python folks: www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...
"We must absorb the past out of each object, so it can turn into empty rubbish. This alchemy is deeply exhausting. Every clearing day, the same fog sets in."
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘Under the stuff I can’t throw out is the stuff my parents couldn’t throw out’: novelist Anne Enright on the agony of clearing her family home
Would saying goodbye to every last newspaper clipping, button and book her parents had saved over decades help her mourn?
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"We must absorb the past out of each object, so it can turn into empty rubbish. This alchemy is deeply exhausting. Every clearing day, the same fog sets in."
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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For people who live with facial differences, the increasing reliance on facial recognition tech can create obstacles to accessing essential systems, as they find the stigma they have long experienced “now being echoed by the technology they are forced to interact with.” www.wired.com/story/when-f...
When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face
An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.
www.wired.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
For people who live with facial differences, the increasing reliance on facial recognition tech can create obstacles to accessing essential systems, as they find the stigma they have long experienced “now being echoed by the technology they are forced to interact with.” www.wired.com/story/when-f...
I apparently received my PhD seven years ago?? Where did time go.
(Oh right, two years disappeared in a pandemic and two in having and raising a baby)
(Oh right, two years disappeared in a pandemic and two in having and raising a baby)
October 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I apparently received my PhD seven years ago?? Where did time go.
(Oh right, two years disappeared in a pandemic and two in having and raising a baby)
(Oh right, two years disappeared in a pandemic and two in having and raising a baby)
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Children's perceptions that the environment supports their autonomy are correlated with higher reported well-being, and perceptions of autonomy being squelched are correlated with ill-being. Cultural variation in corr strength. Autonomy need support matters! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Relationships Between Experiences of Autonomy and Well(Ill)-Being for K-12 Youth: A Meta-Analysis - Educational Psychology Review
Childhood and adolescence are pivotal developmental stages for psychological health. An understanding of psychological mechanisms related to well-being is important for promoting positive life outcomes for youth. Research generally shows that the basic psychological need for autonomy is significantly associated with well-being. To examine the magnitude and sources of variation in this relationship, we conducted a meta-analysis of 90 reports to analyze the average effect of autonomy need satisfaction (ANS) and frustration (ANF) on indicators of psychological well- and ill-being for K-12 (Kindergarten to 12th grade) youth. Results indicated that ANS was positively associated with psychological well-being and negatively associated with psychological ill-being among youth. Further, ANF was negatively associated with psychological well-being and positively associated with psychological ill-being. Moderator analyses indicated that the association between ANS and well-being was stronger for studies conducted with children and adolescents in East Asian countries compared to studies conducted in the USA, Canada, or Northern Europe when controlling for publication status and measurement reliability. Results also showed that the average correlation between ANS and well-being was stronger for studies located in more collectivistic countries compared to individualistic countries when controlling for publication status and measurement reliability. The relationship between ANS and ill-being was stronger for studies conducted in the USA and Canada compared to East Asian and European contexts. Together, results suggest that autonomy satisfaction is related to the well- and ill-being of youth across cultural contexts, but that there is cultural variation in the association between experiences of autonomy and well-being.
link.springer.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Children's perceptions that the environment supports their autonomy are correlated with higher reported well-being, and perceptions of autonomy being squelched are correlated with ill-being. Cultural variation in corr strength. Autonomy need support matters! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
J’ai appris à nager dans une piscine Tournesol, j’apprends aujourd’hui leur signification architecturale et sociale : très chouette documentaire www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Un ovni dans le paysage : épisode 2/2 du podcast Grand plongeon dans la piscine Tournesol
AUDIO • Grand plongeon dans la piscine Tournesol, épisode 2/2 : Un ovni dans le paysage. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Une histoire particulière, et découvrez nos podcasts en ...
www.radiofrance.fr
September 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
J’ai appris à nager dans une piscine Tournesol, j’apprends aujourd’hui leur signification architecturale et sociale : très chouette documentaire www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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Just a few pages in and already loving Jillian Hess’s “How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information” — its relevance to content architecture and editorial affordances in web and content management tools is pinging around in the back of my mind.
September 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Just a few pages in and already loving Jillian Hess’s “How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information” — its relevance to content architecture and editorial affordances in web and content management tools is pinging around in the back of my mind.
I've been an active Wikipedia editor for 9 years, and it's an incredible source of pride. The current attacks, worldwide, on our work are disheartening, but they also bring out great overviews of what we do and why it matters www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
www.theverge.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I've been an active Wikipedia editor for 9 years, and it's an incredible source of pride. The current attacks, worldwide, on our work are disheartening, but they also bring out great overviews of what we do and why it matters www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Have you ever wondered how cycling pants wear? Now THERE'S SCIENCE dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Design of Multi-dimensional Intelligent Evaluation System for Cycling Pants Fabric | Proceedings of the 2024 4th International Conference on Computational Modeling, Simulation and Data Analysis
dl.acm.org
September 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Have you ever wondered how cycling pants wear? Now THERE'S SCIENCE dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...